Everyone knows summer is not summer without ice cream. Now, New York City is celebrating everyone's favorite sweet, cold treat with the Museum of Ice Cream, a temporary museum dedicated to the melty wonder. Located right across the Whitney Museum of American Art in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan, the Museum of Ice Cream features a "Chocolate Chamber," a swimming pool of sprinkles, and ice cream-themed installations by over 30 artists. The museum is open for the whole month of August.

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Visitors to the six-room museum enjoy ice cream cones (free with admission) as soon they enter the grounds. Some of the other main edible attractions include candy balloons (filled with helium), and a taste of the African Miracle Berry, a fruit that changes sour taste to sweet. Visitors are given a dehydrated pill of the fruit and can test its taste-changing abilities by eating lemon slices afterwards.

Perhaps the most popular attraction of the museum, however, is a large pool filled with 11,000 pounds of confetti-colored sprinkles. Visitors can take a dip in the pool and "splash" around—although the sprinkles are not actually edible. Posted signs by the pool read "dip at your own risk" and "Caution: May cause spontaneous happiness."

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Chocolate lovers will also (i)scream for the "Chocolate Chamber," which features chocolate fountains, free chocolates to eat and a mesmerizing video on the big screen showing melting chocolate. Visitors can also help create "The World's Largest Ice Cream Sundae" by scooping ice cream into a giant bowl or ride an ice cream scoop seesaw and an ice cream sandwich swing.

Tickets for the museum, a passion project of 24-year-old co-founder Maryellis Bunn, are all sold out, but take a peek inside the ice cream wonderland by clicking through the slideshow above.